- We are living in a weird political time right now.
I know 'cause I'm on Facebook.
(audience laughs)
A lot of people get in political arguments
on Facebook, calling Facebook drama.
Facebook is drama for people
who've never been in a fist fight.
(audience laughs)
I don't think Facebook is drama
'cause I've been in a fist fight.
I come from the projects.
The only time I seen words hurt someone is when
I saw a girl get hit with a belt buckle that said Denise.
(audience laughs)
In the era of Trump, I kinda already
act on my impulse to turn my anger
and make it productive for me.
So a lot of people who are like,
the age of Trump or talk about that in a way,
I feel like just started getting angry in November,
and I've been angry the whole time.
Like going to five high schools,
seeing my grandfather die when I was 10 years old,
not growing up with my dad in the house,
growing up in the projects,
knowing friends getting killed when I was a teenager,
everything that could have like broken me down
has made me like someone who overlooks
all the political stuff, and is just like,
you don't understand like what I escaped.
I'm a lot stronger than whatever
this four years age of Trump, whatever bullshit
niggas don't got time for that.
- Yeah, I mentioned it.
You have to because this is the world we're living in now.
But I'm not spending my time talking about that man.
I'm gonna let you guys get used to the voice.
I can see some confusion.
(audience laughs)
Gonna be like, is that Idris Elba, what's happening?
(audience laughs)
You didn't know before Idris
that there's Black people in England, you didn't know.
You didn't know!
I've been living in America 10 years.
And for nine and a half of those years
people thought I was an Australian Aborigine, all right?
(audience laughs)
I get into a lot of Twitter fights with people going,
immigrants, you guys coming
to our country and taking our jobs.
I'm like, the only reason I'm born in England
is 'cause you guys came to Nigeria and fucked it up.
(audience laughs)
When you go to someone's house and mess it up,
don't be surprised if they turn up at yours.
We're family now.
(audience laughs)
- People are taking obvious sides.
They're either incorporating politics
into their humor or they're not.
- I'm not a political comic at all.
I have opinions, but it's not like
I consume politics on a daily basis.
I wish we could have a break, just a break.
- The way that cops describe Black men
after they shoot us is insane.
It's like, he looked like a beast from hell.
He charged at me like a linebacker, I feared for my life.
(audience laughs)
- Let us not forget the classic,
I thought he had a gun, vintage law enforcement.
- Oh yeah. (audience laughs)
That's their catchphrase.
That's their version of "Did I do that?"
And you're like, yeah, I saw the video.
(audience laughs)
(audience claps)
- Our experiences in England
as Black people are very similar.
You forget, the Brits were the best racists.
They were the most prolific slavers.
The Americans did the equivalent of like
if you rob someone's house, when you steal something,
and you take it back to your own house.
Whereas the Brits robbed someone's house
and hid it somewhere else.
The experiences in England as Black people is the same.
The only reason Black people don't die
at the same rate in England at the hands of police
is 'cause our police don't carry guns.
- Oh, one time, this is actually,
I was stopped by the cops in a cab.
I was pulled over by the cops
in the cab on the way to another comedy show.
And I was in Brooklyn, and I felt like
they were working with this cab driver, I should say,
to just like stop brothers who were surprised
that they got a cab in the first place.
I had to go to another show and still process that.
Of course I have to joke it off,
but it's still like that pain.
It doesn't really fully leave me,
or I'm not over it till I can like write a joke about that.
This actually happened to me recently.
I was pulled over by the cops in a cab.
Yeah, I didn't know they could do that either.
(audience laughs)
And they put on the lights, boop,
and the cab driver was like, I don't know, I think I'm good.
(audience laughs)
They came to shine the lights in the back seat.
They're like, "I'm sorry,
"I just wanna make sure this guy's all right,
"we had some robberies at gunpoint tonight."
And it made me nervous, 'cause like as a kid,
like cops would come to my school and read books to us.
But like in that moment I felt like
I was in a Dr. Seuss book
that was trying to demonstrate racism to children.
(audience laughs)
Just like, cop I am, I am cop I am.
(audience laughs)
I do not like Black man or woman.
(audience laughs)
I would not like them on a boat.
I would not like them on a goat.
I would not like them eating cookies.
I would not like them wearing hoodies.
(audience laughs)
I would not like them anywhere, to be honest,
except maybe my fantasy basketball team.
(audience laughs)
They came over like, "where are you coming from?"
I was like, a comedy show.
They're like, "Where are you going to?"
I was like a comedy show.
(audience laughs)
They're like, "Oh really, you're a comedian?
"Tell me a joke."
(audience laughs)
And I was like, you just pulled over my cab.
(audience laughs)
Nigga, that's the joke.
(audience laughs)
That's all you get, you goofy bitch.
(audience laughs)
You know, so and it gets darker than that, but yeah.
I mean, it's real life too.
Pretty dark, and I'm pretty Black.
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